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TROY DAYS EDITION
University of Southern California
DAILY • TROJAN
VOL. LIV LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA, MONDAY, SEPT. 17, 1962 NO. 1
For, New Students:
The knowing hands of graduate art or junk? Right now, the student couldn't
student carefully shape a clay bust atfer care less. His work is a dream—a dream
weeks of sketches and plans. Masterpiece that must face the test of reality later.
By HAL DRAKE Daily Trojan Editor
What is a dream?
It is an escape from the hardness of life, an artist’s brush to touch up the wrinkles of disappointment. And it is a conscious plan that gives meaning and force to life, a truth greater than reality.
College is such a dream. For one it is the pure, regressive fancy of party and panty raid, an idle retreat from growing up and a backstop for responsibility.
For another, it is purposeful preparation of the self for an intelligible role in society, a means to judge the pressing weight of the past and its effect on the relation of your person and your race to the cosmos.
Each year, hundreds of thousands of these isolated, individual attitudes come floating lazily into colleges and universities across the country. To some, college is a piece of paper to open doors. To many more, college is as fuzzy as the future. It is, yeah, lots of memorizing and, yeah, something to do after high school.
What college is; is an attitude, a way of life.
It is probing reams of words by a millenia of writers to determine the Grand Design of Man, or to adjust to the fact that there is none. It is refusing to take the minutest aspects of living for granted, and realizing that the textbook is not the final word to be written on any subject, but merely a springboard for the thinkers of the future.
For the most part, college is discovering that mast of what pertains to Man is unknown, and most of the questions meaningful to him are unanswered.
This is the tradition of college that is borne to us by the centuries of inquiring minds that sprang from the simple beginnings of Western university life in Europe.
Yet, the increasing demands of the space ag* tempt the modern student to equate college with technology and professional training, while high
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YOU COLLEGE?
Four Years To Dream
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| Title | DAILY TROJAN, Vol. 54, No. 1, September 17, 1962 |
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| Full text | TROY DAYS EDITION University of Southern California DAILY • TROJAN VOL. LIV LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA, MONDAY, SEPT. 17, 1962 NO. 1 For, New Students: The knowing hands of graduate art or junk? Right now, the student couldn't student carefully shape a clay bust atfer care less. His work is a dream—a dream weeks of sketches and plans. Masterpiece that must face the test of reality later. By HAL DRAKE Daily Trojan Editor What is a dream? It is an escape from the hardness of life, an artist’s brush to touch up the wrinkles of disappointment. And it is a conscious plan that gives meaning and force to life, a truth greater than reality. College is such a dream. For one it is the pure, regressive fancy of party and panty raid, an idle retreat from growing up and a backstop for responsibility. For another, it is purposeful preparation of the self for an intelligible role in society, a means to judge the pressing weight of the past and its effect on the relation of your person and your race to the cosmos. Each year, hundreds of thousands of these isolated, individual attitudes come floating lazily into colleges and universities across the country. To some, college is a piece of paper to open doors. To many more, college is as fuzzy as the future. It is, yeah, lots of memorizing and, yeah, something to do after high school. What college is; is an attitude, a way of life. It is probing reams of words by a millenia of writers to determine the Grand Design of Man, or to adjust to the fact that there is none. It is refusing to take the minutest aspects of living for granted, and realizing that the textbook is not the final word to be written on any subject, but merely a springboard for the thinkers of the future. For the most part, college is discovering that mast of what pertains to Man is unknown, and most of the questions meaningful to him are unanswered. This is the tradition of college that is borne to us by the centuries of inquiring minds that sprang from the simple beginnings of Western university life in Europe. Yet, the increasing demands of the space ag* tempt the modern student to equate college with technology and professional training, while high (Continued on Pag? tif YOU COLLEGE? Four Years To Dream |
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